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>> i got done putting the camera down. my cameraman was walking around. and then i started hearing a bing, like bing, bing, bing. literally five feet away i see this man probably in his late 50s, early 60s, and i look down and i saw these two younger hispanic guys kicking him in the head, like, repeatedly, and his head was bouncing off this pole. >> what you saw here today was actually a battery. they were stomping his head. he was pretty messed up. >> the inmate who was attacked survived because of a quick response by staff on the yard. his assailants were sentenced to six months in fulsom's ...

For giving up information, for giving up game. for explaining how it is in here. >> that's a ten-four. we'll keep that area clear until we're complete. >> as in most prisons, the exercise yard can be the most dangerous place in the facility. >> right off the bat you can tell when something is going to go on. it gets quiet. guys are grouping up in different races. you've got blacks, whites, everybody. >> if violence does break out, yard gunner hosso is well equipped to respond. >> co gas. i have batons, direct foam rounds. it's a less lethal weapon. this is a deadly weapon. this is a lethal wea...

>> many of them have this warrior mentality. >> by getting that recognition, i get power. >> my job was to go in there and kill him and went in with the intention of killing him. with power i get every one i go to. >> you're surrounded by, you know, a thousand killers. and every one of them did a stranger. >> once i control the yards i control the drug situation. i control the inmates as well. >> we were actually killing people that didn't deserve to be killed. >> this is california's san quentin state prison, one of the first prisons ever profiled on "lockup." >> for a photographer, san quent...

>> if you are an active gang member or an active hispanic within the group, you are expected to be up at 6:00 in the morning when they go to the exercise yard together, they do exercises together in cadence. that's one of the rules. you have to. you don't have a choice. you have to participate. what they are told to do is expect to have a fight any time the cell doors open. with their weapons readily available. you notice when the cell doors open, whatever inmate's inside that cell will walk to the cell door immediately to see why the door is open. they will look up and down the tier to see if...

It's not uncommon for emergency response team to be deployed once or twice a week. >> with new deputies coming from the academy and others heading out to patrol the street, training for the emergency response team is constant. >> we train several days a week probably on a routine basis. all three shifts around the clock. >> i won't make any announcement to that fact that, hey, we're going to have a drill tonight. i believe you train the way you deploy. and that the -- i have an old saying is that when you fail to train, you train to fail. >> as demonstrated in this drill, when a riot breaks ou...